You have done very well in creating the YT video. It is nice that your company has a social club where members play a sport like ping pong. Others have basketball, softball, etc. that competes with other company teams...

Thanks for the compliment. He had a neighboring company participant in the tournamnet. They even took the title for one of our divisions.

Our company had a softball team that played until the league folded in 2013. I did make some cool sports broadcast like videos from those games as well. All made using PD.

2013 - Game 4 - Two over-the-fence HRs were hit.
https://youtu.be/ZIy1DFzG5DA

2013 - Game 9 - Less sports-broadcast like, more "Fraser" like. The 7th inning is rather scary.
https://youtu.be/tGBKidG7e8k

2012 Season Finale - Makes use of a "live" overlay scoreboard.
https://youtu.be/CoDuZ7Ys5WA

The softball team also had a cool website, which is still up:
http://verdasyssoftball.com/

Here are parts 2 and 3 of our Ping-Pong tournament.

Part 2 - Intermediate Division Finals
https://youtu.be/6EmIBvnea3I

Part 3 - Expert Division Finals
https://youtu.be/sh_7vqZ_AXg

If anyone has any questions on how I did any of my effects, then respond to this post and I'll share my secrets.

Challenges faces:
- Using footage from cameras
- dealing with camera that had to be mounted up-side-down, thus inverting the video
- dealing with camera footage that became unaligned with the scene.
- audio sync'ing issues between camera
- split screen
- YouTube and 60fps
... and more.

Quote Here are parts 2 and 3 of our Ping-Pong tournament.

Part 2 - Intermediate Division Finals
https://youtu.be/6EmIBvnea3I

Part 3 - Expert Division Finals
https://youtu.be/sh_7vqZ_AXg

If anyone has any questions on how I did any of my effects, then respond to this post and I'll share my secrets.

Challenges faces:
- Using footage from cameras
- dealing with camera that had to be mounted up-side-down, thus inverting the video
- dealing with camera footage that became unaligned with the scene.
- audio sync'ing issues between camera
- split screen
- YouTube and 60fps
... and more.

The videos look great. I am curious to see how you did the "Live" scoreboard? I do my daughters volleyball games and can't seem to find an easy way to do it in PD15.

Thanks for your help,

papapnoi

Quote The videos look great. I am curious to see how you did the "Live" scoreboard? I do my daughters volleyball games and can't seem to find an easy way to do it in PD15.

Thanks for your help,

papapnoi

Thanks!

The scoreboard in the video was done "manually". I created a graphic (the wings) for which the scoreboard to lay in-front of. (That's the easy part.)

Then I added a separate text box for each player's score. I started with "0" for each player and then extended the text box on the timeline until the end of the match. Whenever there was a scoring change, I split the textbox in the timeline at that point of tehs coring change, and adjust the value in the textbox on the right of the split most. Below is an example:

[ 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 ... ]

[ 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |5 ... ]

Yes, this is tedious and if you a miss score somewhere, you may have to redo part of the scoring for that match. But you have full control and the output looks real good!

But again, this is tedious. If you need a "faster" way of doing this, then I would recommend looking into getting a scoreboard application for the computer (I'm sure there are many) where you can enter the team names and update the score using keystrokes. (EX: press "h" to away home team a point and "a" to award away team a point, etc. )

While you are watching the game (live or on replay) you could record a screencapture of the computer display as you update the scoreboard displayed on it. After you are done, place the video ontop of you normal footage. (trim and resize to your liking.) You may have to tweek things, and the graphics may not be as sharp, but it's far easier.

When we were planning to do our 2016 tournament, I was going to use a manual flipboard scoreboard and have a camera focused on just that. That way, we would have a scoreboard in the room for people to see and I won't have to do do the scoreboard work separately. Of course we never had our 2016 tournment (long story) so I never got a chance to give that a shot.

Hope that helps. If you are not making many videos, then my original suggestion might be "good enough". Also, if there is a scoring error, at least you can correct it, recompile the video and have a fix in not time. This is not possible with the other method. And if you do decide to go with my original suggestion, don't go crazy trying to come-up with a scoreboard that looks good. A simple one might be good enough.